Has anyone else noticed this,

If an element is set up as a date field & the format of that field is set to system long date.

If the date is entered as today (friday july 16th) a message appears on exiting the element

"warning LE0 cannot be retained converting to SUNDAY, july 16 2004"

on exiting the form (saving) a message appears
"warning LE0 cannot be retained converting to blank"

On changing the element format to system short date or another format, the element behaves correctly.

You will see this if your System Long Date has the Weekday in it, i.e. "Friday".

Here's the issue. You have set System Long Date as the Output Format. While the date can be formatted for display with the weekday name, this is not a valid input format. If you type "Friday, Jul 16, 2004" into the element, Sesame can't convert that to a valid date. Therefore, it balks when trying to read it back in to save the value.

You can use a System Long Date with a Weekday as an Output Format for a Report Element, because it never tries to read the formatted value back in.

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Yes. 16/7/2004 is a valid date which can be converted to Sunday... However, Sunday... is not itself a valid input date format, so Sesame can't read it back in as a date once it has been converted.